Grey's Anatomy (TV Series)

Tainted Obligation (2009)

Ellen Pompeo: Dr. Meredith Grey

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• Dr. Meredith Grey : We begining life with a few obligations. We pledge allegiance fusto the flag. We swear to return out library books. Buw as we get older, we take vows, we make promises, we get burdened by commitments. To do no harm, to tell the truth and nothing but. To love and cherish till death to us part. So we just keep running up a tab. Until we owe everything to everybody, and suddenly think "what the... "

• Dr. Meredith Grey : The thing about being a surgeon, everybody wants a piece of you. We take one little oath and suddenly, we're drowning in obligations. To our patients, to our colleagues, to medicine itself. So we do what any sane person would do. We run like hell from our promises, hoping they'll be forgotten. But sooner or later, they always catch up. And sometimes you find the obligation you dread the most isn't worth running from at all.